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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Episode 1 - Stan's Last Game
October. 25,1983
James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.
Episode 2 - Young Shoulders
February. 14,1984
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
Episode 3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy
February. 21,1984
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Episode 4 - Z for Zachariah
February. 28,1984
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Episode 5 - Moving on the Edge
March. 06,1984
Episode 6 - Desert of Lies
March. 13,1984
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Episode 7 - Hard Feelings
March. 20,1984
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Episode 8 - Under the Hammer
March. 27,1984
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
Episode 9 - King
April. 03,1984
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
Episode 10 - Rainy Day Women
April. 10,1984
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria
Episode 11 - Dog Ends
July. 17,1984
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
Episode 12 - The Groundling and the Kite
July. 24,1984
Episode 13 - The Cry
July. 31,1984
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
Episode 14 - It Could Happen to Anybody
August. 14,1984
Episode 15 - Only Children
August. 21,1984
Episode 16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
August. 28,1984
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